Mining Incidents

Hector Houston County Quarries: 1 reportable incident Metal/Non-Metal

Controlled by Schulze Leland F
Houston County, MN  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 2100037

MSHA record for Hector Houston County Quarries (mine ID 2100037). Fatalities, non-fatal incidents grouped by year, current operator and controller, and mine context.

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
1
Years on record
1985
Latest incident
Oct 1985
Ownership history
  1. Hector Construction Company Inc 1950 to 1984
  2. Hector Construction Company Inc 1984 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.

Hector Houston County Quarries sits in Houston County, Minnesota, where the Census mining category is 0.1% of county employment.

Local economic context
County figures come from the US Census Bureau's American Community Survey, 5-year pooled estimates, so the 2023 vintage covers 2019 through 2023. The Census category is 'mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction', which is broader than MSHA jurisdiction and includes oil and gas workers no mine employs. These figures describe the surrounding county, not this mine, and are not a factor in any specific incident.
Houston County, Minnesota · Population 18,768
0.1%
Mining share of county employment
$77,087
Median household income
Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2023 5-year estimates.
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

1 on file

1985 · 1 incident

October 1, 1985 MN · Metal/Non-Metal brakeman, roperider, car runner, spotterman, snapper, trip rider, car rider, flagman POWERED HAULAGE
Hector Construction Company Inc · Fall from machine

JUMPED OFF BREAKER AS IT WAS JACKKNIFING AND GOING INTO DITCH.